Flexible Word Classes: Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech by

Description: Flexible Word Classes by Jan Rijkhoff, Eva van Lier This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of flexible words, i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of flexible words, i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of two or more of the four traditional, specialised word classes. Thus, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions likepredicating (verbal function), referring (nominal function) or modifying (a function typically associated with adjectives and e.g. manner adverbs). Even though linguists have beenaware of flexible world classes for more than a century, the phenomenon has not played a role in the development of linguistic typology or modern grammatical theory. The current volume aims to address this gap by offering detailed studies on flexible word classes, investigating their properties and what it means for the grammar of a language to have such a word class. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributionsfrom authors with an expert knowledge of languages that have played - or should play - a role in the debate about flexible word classes, including Kharia, Riau Indonesian, Santali, Sri Lanka Malay,Lushootseed, Gooniyandi, and Late Archaic Chinese. Author Biography Jan Rijkhoff is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. His books include The Noun Phrase (OUP 2002) and, with co-editor Daniel Garcia Velasco, The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar (Mouton de Gruyter 2008). He has published on numerous topics - including word classes - in various international journals, including Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and Linguistics Compass, Journal ofSemantics, Linguistics, and Studies in Language.Eva van Lier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include several journal articles on word class typology and the monograph Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses: a typological study (Utrecht: LOT 2009). Currently she investigates properties of flexible word classes in Oceanic languages with a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Table of Contents 1: Eva van Lier and Jan Rijkhoff: Flexible Word Classes in Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory2: Kees Hengeveld: Parts-of-speech Systems as a Basic Typological Determinant3: Jan Don and Eva van Lier: Derivation and Categorization in Flexible and Differentiated Languages4: David Gil: Riau Indonesian: A language without nouns and verbs5: John Peterson: Parts of Speech in Kharia: A formal account6: Felix Rau: Proper Names, Predicates, and the Parts-of-speech System of Santali7: David Beck: Unidirectional Flexibility and the Noun-verb Distinction in Lushootseed8: William B. McGregor: Lexical Categories in Gooniyandi, Kimberley, Western Australia9: Sebastian Nordhoff: Jack-of-all-trades: The Sri Lanka Malay flexible adjective10: Walter Bisang: Word Class Systems Between Flexibility and Rigidity: An integrative approach Long Description This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of flexible words, i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of two or more of the four traditional, specialised word classes. Thus, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions likepredicating (verbal function), referring (nominal function) or modifying (a function typically associated with adjectives and e.g. manner adverbs). Even though linguists have beenaware of flexible world classes for more than a century, the phenomenon has not played a role in the development of linguistic typology or modern grammatical theory. The current volume aims to address this gap by offering detailed studies on flexible word classes, investigating their properties and what it means for the grammar of a language to have such a word class. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributionsfrom authors with an expert knowledge of languages that have played - or should play - a role in the debate about flexible word classes, including Kharia, Riau Indonesian, Santali, Sri Lanka Malay,Lushootseed, Gooniyandi, and Late Archaic Chinese. Feature First major publication on the phenomenonOffers cross-linguistic, descriptive, and diverse theoretical approachesIncludes analysis of data from different language families and from lesser studied languages Details ISBN0199668442 Author Eva van Lier Short Title FLEXIBLE WORD CLASSES Language English ISBN-10 0199668442 ISBN-13 9780199668441 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-08-29 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Eva van Lier DEWEY 415 Series Oxford Linguistics Subtitle Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech UK Release Date 2013-08-29 AU Release Date 2013-08-29 NZ Release Date 2013-08-29 Illustrations Tables, Figures, Line Drawings, Tree Diagrams Pages 360 Publisher Oxford University Press Imprint Oxford University Press Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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